The cold reply with gloomy mien
He oft upon his lips would curb,
Thinking: 'tis foolish to disturb
This
evanescent
boyish bliss.
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THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL
We still
remember!
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Of wealthy lustre was the banquet-room,
Fill'd with pervading
brilliance
and perfume:
Before each lucid pannel fuming stood
A censer fed with myrrh and spiced wood,
Each by a sacred tripod held aloft,
Whose slender feet wide-swerv'd upon the soft
Wool-woofed carpets: fifty wreaths of smoke
From fifty censers their light voyage took
To the high roof, still mimick'd as they rose
Along the mirror'd walls by twin-clouds odorous.
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O'BRIEN
Boston
(To be
published
by Henry Holt fit Co.
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[185] 42
prettily
1641.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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Years have
inclined
me to stern prose,
Years to light rhyme themselves oppose,
And now, I mournfully confess,
In rhyming I show laziness.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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It seemed in the
darkness
a sound they heard,--
Was it feeble moaning or uttered word?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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They were afraid to answer, but sat
stone-still in a dead silence, as if
overpowered
by sleep;
"Not all from fear, but some for courtesy" (ll.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Is it to fast an hour,
Or ragg'd to go,
Or show
A
downcast
look and sour?
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Robert Herrick |
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--
That so your
happiness
in the thought of God
Stands, that he open'd man's expense of grief
To give your oars unscrupulous room, to be
The buoyancy of your delighted barges,
Sliding with fortunate lanterns and with tunes
And odorous holiday, O kings, O you
The pleasure of God, richly, joyously launcht
On this kind sea, the tame sorrow of Man?
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Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Immortal
Vida: on whose honour'd brow 705
The Poet's bays and Critic's ivy grow:
Cremona now shal ever boast thy name,
As next in place to Mantua, next in fame!
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Alexander Pope |
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THE BOOK OF HOURS
_The Book of A Monk's Life_
I live my life in circles that grow wide
And
endlessly
unroll,
I may not reach the last, but on I glide
Strong pinioned toward my goal.
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Rilke - Poems |
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and an
inarticulate
cry rises from there that seems the voice of light.
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A FOREWORD
When the first Miscellany of
American
Poetry appeared in 1920,
innumerable were the questions asked by both readers and reviewers of
publishers and contributors alike.
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Keats - Lamia |
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Was anders suche zu beginnen
Des Chaos
wunderlicher
Sohn!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Imperishably
pure beyond all things below.
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Byron |
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Now mine eyes are raised to see,
And all the
doorways
of my soul flung free.
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Euripides - Electra |
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Lewis Carroll |
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HYMN
AT morn--at noon--at
twilight
dim--
Maria!
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Poe - 5 |
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L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Eclogue
The Faun
These nymphs, I would
perpetuate
them.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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cum quo morantem saepe diem mero
fregi, coronatus nitentis
malobathro
Syrio capillos.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The maid announced the meal in tones
That I myself had taught her,
Meant to allay my sister's moans
Like oil on
troubled
water:
I rushed to Jones, the lively Jones,
And begged him to escort her.
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Lewis Carroll |
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"Yes" I
whispered
"this, too, holy, Even this holy and divine,
Though to poets known and lovers only
The dear face that looks from meanest things
"And the majesty that moves about us,
The bright splendor what common guise.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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Thus it
happened
that
his seven ministers were all noted for their accomplishments as jokers.
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Poe - 5 |
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This is
included
for the benefit of
reciters and their audiences who have found the entire poem too long for
declamation.
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Wilde - Poems |
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(To Don Diegue)
You may speak next, I
sanction
her complaint.
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Corneille - Le Cid |
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Miranda remaining
dumb and Sir George
answering
for her.
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Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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_, at the
beginning
of the third century A.
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Li Po |
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Him thoughte his
sorweful
herte braste a-two.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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'Frowning,
frowning
night,
O'er this desert bright
Let thy moon arise,
While I close my eyes.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Naevius, a little later,
retained
the same metre for his epic
upon the Punic Wars.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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CHOR DER WEIBER:
Mit Spezereien
Hatten wir ihn gepflegt,
Wir seine Treuen
Hatten ihn hingelegt;
Tucher und Binden
Reinlich
unwanden
wir,
Ach!
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Ista cum lingua, si usus veniat tibi, possis
Culos et
crepidas
lingere carpatinas.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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The Immediate Life
What's become of you why this white hair and pink
Why this
forehead
these eyes rent apart heart-rending
The great misunderstanding of the marriage of radium
Solitude chases me with its rancour.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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A
princely
lodging.
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Longfellow |
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"Con miglior corso e con
migliore
stella.
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Christina Rossetti |
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Sigh
My soul, towards your brow where O calm sister,
An autumn dreams,
blotched
by reddish smudges,
And towards the errant sky of your angelic eye
Climbs: as in a melancholy garden the true sigh
Of a white jet of water towards the Azure!
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Long have I longed, till I am tired
Of longing and desire;
Farewell
my points in vain desired,
My dying fire;
Farewell all things that die and fail and tire.
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Christina Rossetti |
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The wild rose and the
barberry
thorn
Hung out their summer pride
Where now on heated pavements worn
The feet of millions stride.
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Borne, without dissent of either,
To the parish night;
Of the
separated
people
Which are out of sight?
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Of things below
Most
miserable
I; for Cupid's bow
Has banish'd quiet from this heaving breast.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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With sudden shock the prison-clock
Smote on the
shivering
air,
And from all the gaol rose up a wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
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Wilde - Poems |
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No man:
Th'
expedition
of my violent Loue
Out-run the pawser, Reason.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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I observed that very few of the more mystical
Quatrains
are in
the Bodleian MS.
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Omar Khayyam - Rubaiyat |
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And now the king and
herdsman
from the field
Drew nigh the town; when in the yard there lay
A dog called Argus, which, before his way
Assumed for Ilion, Ulysses bred,
Yet stood his pleasure then in little stead,
As being too young, but, growing to his grace,
Young men made choice of him for every chase,
Or of their wild goats, of their hares, or harts;
But, his king gone, and he, now past his parts,
Lay all abjectly on the stable's store
Before the ox-stall, and mules' stable-door,
To keep the clothes cast from the peasants' hands
While they laid compass on Ulysses' lands,
The dog, with ticks (unlook'd to) overgrown.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even,
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two
mourning
eyes become thy face:
O!
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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Her word is steadfast, and I know
That
plighted
firm are we:
But she has caught new love-calls since
She smiled as maid on me!
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Girls, lovers, youngsters, fresh to hand,
Dancers,
tumblers
that leap like lambs,
Agile as arrows, like shots from a cannon,
Throats tinkling, clear as bells on rams,
Will you leave him here, your poor old Villon?
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Villon |
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"
Pugatchef gave a signal; I was
immediately
unbound.
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Whilst all the world is poor,
And have within
ourselves
possessed
All love's and nature's store.
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Marvell - Poems |
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And so many
children
poor?
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Goodness on your part, and
gratitude
on mine, began a
tie which has gradually entwisted itself among the dearest chords of
my bosom, and I tremble at the omens of your late and present ailing
habit and shattered health.
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Robert Forst |
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Donne like Marvell seems to have been
influenced
by Ronsard and his peers.
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Ronsard |
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A
thousand
fingers pointed.
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Stephen Crane |
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or whose divinity landed thee all
unwitting
on our coasts?
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Virgil - Aeneid |
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When yet a child, I heard that kisses drew
Favour from thee, and so I gave and gave
To the void air, bidding them find out love:
But when I came to feel how far above
All fancy, pride, and fickle maidenhood,
All earthly pleasure, all imagin'd good,
Was the warm tremble of a devout kiss,--
Even then, that moment, at the thought of this, 750
Fainting
I fell into a bed of flowers,
And languish'd there three days.
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Keats |
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NONE FORGOES
THE LEAP,
ATTAINING
THE REPOSE.
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Sappho |
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LXXV
So are you to my
thoughts
as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
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Meredith - Poems |
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835
Your tears
prevailed
then over my deep regret.
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Racine - Phaedra |
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nec enim dominos de plebe tulisti,
sed quibus occasus pariter
famulantur
et ortus.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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The
preterite
of _ederu_,
to be in misery, has not been found.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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'T was sooner when the cricket went
Than when the winter came,
Yet that pathetic pendulum
Keeps
esoteric
time.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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By Zeus, I am only
throwing
up my right leg, that's all.
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Aristophanes |
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These are in his eyes the
prerogatives
of the throne.
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Tacitus |
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Would you sound below the
restless
ocean of the entire world?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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'T were odd I fear a thing
That
comprehendeth
me
In one or more existences
At Deity's decree.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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Unnatural vices
Are
fathered
by our heroism.
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T.S. Eliot |
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Ed elli a me: <
quant' esser puote in angelo e in alma,
tutta e in lui; e si volem che sia,
perch' elli e quelli che porto la palma
giuso a Maria, quando 'l
Figliuol
di Dio
carcar si volse de la nostra salma.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Als du im Saal mit deiner himmlischen Kunst
Beethoven
zeigst, und seinem Willen nach
Mit den zehn Fingern fuehrst der Leute Gunst,
Zehn Zungen sagen was der Meister sprach.
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Sidney Lanier |
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"
Then I: "This kindest converse makes to me
All sense of my long
suffering
light and sweet:
But lady!
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Petrarch - Poems |
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As
practising
how they could thunder too ;
Out of the binder's hand the sheaves they tore.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Then, through the vestibule, and right across
The court, Ulysses dragg'd him by the foot
Into the portico, where
propping
him
Against the wall, and giving him his staff,
In accents wing'd he bade him thus farewell.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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And first,
One oft may see that objects which are light
And made of tiny bodies are the swift;
In which class is the sun's light and his heat,
Since made from small primordial elements
Which, as it were, are forward knocked along
And through the
interspaces
of the air
To pass delay not, urged by blows behind;
For light by light is instantly supplied
And gleam by following gleam is spurred and driven.
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Lucretius |
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CHANGE
I am that
creature
and creator who
Loosens and reins the waters of the sea,
Forming the rocky marge anon anew.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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We have washed our swords in the surf of Indian seas;
We have
pastured
our horses among the snows of T'ien Shan.
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Li Po |
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The greatest poet hardly knows
pettiness
or triviality.
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Whitman |
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the only sound,
The
dripping
of the oar suspended!
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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The barges wash
Drifting logs
Down
Greenwich
reach
Past the Isle of Dogs.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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The rich will feast on
Christmas
Day;
The poor will fast on Christmas Day.
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Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
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uel poena in tempus mortis dilata fuisset,
uel
praecepisset
mors properata fugam.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one
afternoon
in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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He said, among others,
I will bring
(and the phrase was just and good,
but not as good as mine)
"the
narcissus
that loves the rain.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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e sterre sirius
eschaufe?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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So clings to her, is fixed as with a nail,
My heart, as the bark cleaves to the rod,
She is of joy my tower, palace, chamber;
And I love her more than brother, or uncle:
And twice the joy in
Paradise
for my soul,
If any man there through true loving enters.
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Troubador Verse |
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"You have lost it by the way," said he, "and pray what is that which
jingles in your pocket,
barefaced
liar that you are?
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Twenty days ahead of the Indian, twenty years ahead of the white
man,
At last the Indian
overtook
him, at last the Indian hurried past
him;
At last the white man overtook him, at last the white man hurried
past him;
At last his own trees overtook him, at last his own trees hurried
past him.
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American Poetry - 1922 - A Miscellany |
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Mallarme
left a series of fragments for a four-part poetic memorial, a 'tomb'.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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Then the bulwark-of-earls {29a} bade bring within,
hardy chieftain, Hrethel's heirloom
garnished with gold: no Geat e'er knew
in shape of a sword a
statelier
prize.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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only that we enjoy each other and exhaust
each other if it must be so;)
From the master, the pilot I yield the vessel to,
The general commanding me, commanding all, from him permission taking,
From time the programme hastening, (I have loiter'd too long as it is,)
From sex, from the warp and from the woof,
From privacy, from frequent repinings alone,
From plenty of persons near and yet the right person not near,
From the soft sliding of hands over me and thrusting of fingers
through my hair and beard,
From the long sustain'd kiss upon the mouth or bosom,
From the close pressure that makes me or any man drunk, fainting
with excess,
From what the divine husband knows, from the work of fatherhood,
From exultation, victory and relief, from the bedfellow's embrace in
the night,
From the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips and bosoms,
From the cling of the trembling arm,
From the bending curve and the clinch,
From side by side the pliant coverlet off-throwing,
From the one so unwilling to have me leave, and me just as unwilling
to leave,
(Yet a moment O tender waiter, and I return,)
From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews,
From the night a moment I
emerging
flitting out,
Celebrate you act divine and you children prepared for,
And you stalwart loins.
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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Have they
nostrils
breathing flame?
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Euripides - Alcestis |
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